Feed-regulator.



PATENTED FEB. 12, 1907.

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FEED-REGULATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

"Patented Feb. 12, 1907.

Application filed June 14, 1906. Serial No. 821,642.

To all whom [it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE HALLIDAY, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Superior, in the county of Douglas. and State ofWVisconsin, have invented a new and Improved Feed-Regulator, of whichthe following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is an improved feed-regulator-for the feeding of grainand other materials in a broad, thin, and continuous stream.

The invention contemplates a device of this character which shall be ofsimple construction and an effective means for posi tively distributinggrain uniformly and at any desired rate.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal central vertical sectional view through themachine looking in the direction of the feed-roller, and Fig. 2

is a transverse vertical section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1..

Referring to the drawing-figures, the numeral 1 indicates a framecomprising end standards 2 2, suitably braced and supported and carryingat their upper ends a hopper 3. This hopper is made up of inclined sidewalls 4 4, connecting at their lower ends with, walls 5 5, preferablyarranged parallel to each other and joined to suitable end walls, theside wall at the front of the hopperbeing made shorter than the oppositewall to provide an opening 6 for the escape of the material. A bottom 7is suspended, as by links 8, at each end of the hopper in order that itmay h ave a reciprocating or oscillatory movement in order to uniformlydistribute the material to the feed-roll. This bottom may be attached toany suitable means for oscillating it as, for example, the rod 8 passingout at one side of the machine-frame.

Pivotally suspended between the parallel side walls 5' are U-shapedconveyers or distributers 9, arranged in two independent series,inclined in opposite directions from the center of the machine. Theseconveyers or distributers reach to the oscillatory bottom 7 and operateto scrape the material as the bottom moves in one direction and allowthe material to pass under it as the bottom moves in the oppositedirection, each series of said conveyers, in view of theirreversely-inclined relation, alternating with each other in the scrapingaction in raking the material from the center toward each end, therebyat all times insuring even distribution of the same.

J ournaled in the supporting-frame at one side of the opening 6 is afeed-roller 10, so positioned that its circumference will be insubstantial contact with the projecting edge of the bottom 7 and thebottom will be in alinement with the roller-axis. This roller is to bedriven by any suitable means, thereby lifting the material over itsperiphery and delivering it in a uniform continuous stream.

For regulating the flow of material the side wall 5, in which theopening 6 is provided, has slidable upon it a gate 11, extending thefull length of the opening and having fixed to it at suitable pointsupwardly-proj ecting screwrods 12. These screw rods pass throughapertured brackets 13, which are engaged by wing-nuts 14, threaded ontothe rods and providing means for the vertical adjustment of the gate 11in a well-known manner.

In practice it may be found desirable to employ a cover 15 for thehopper to inclose the material after it.has been placed therein. Alsonumerous other details of construction may be varied without departingfrom the spirit of the invention, which is limited in scope by theannexed claims only.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. In a feeding-machine, a hopper comprising parallelside walls at its lower end, and having an opening through one of saidside walls extending the length of the hop per, a gate carried by theside wall adjacent to the opening adapted to regulate the extentthereof, U-shaped conveyers pivotally mounted in the side walls arrangedin two independent series reversely inclined from the center, anoscillatory bottom on the hopper for operating the conveyers, a rollerjournaled at one side of the gate and of the opening, having its axissubstantially in the same horizontal plane as the bottom of the hopper,whereby as the roller revolves a continuous flow of material isdelivered over its periphery.

2. In a feeding-machine, a hopper having an oscillatory bottom, saidhopper having an opening in one side thereof adjacent to the bottom, andtwo independent series of con veyers or distributers inclined inopposite direotions from the center of the hopper adapt- 4. In afeeding-machine, a hopper having ed to cooperate with the oscillatorybottom, an oscillatory bottom, and disconnected U- 15 for the pur osedescribed. shaped members each pivotally suspended 3. In aeeding-maohine, a hopper having l in the hopper crosswise of said bottomand an oscillatory bottom, distributers reversely ooaoting therewith fordistributing the mainolined from the center of the hopper and co 1terial in the hopper. operating With the bottom, the hopper havi Intestimony whereof I have signed my 20 ing an opening at one sidethereof, a gate adname to this specification in the presence of justableover the opening, and a feed-roller two subscribing witnesses. journaledadj aoent to the bottom at one side GEORGE HALLIDAY. of the opening fordelivering acontinuons Witnesses:

B. D. MERRELL, HENRY PARKER.

flow of material over its periphery as it is re volved.

